Committee voted No

Whereas, the confidence and purity of the ballot requires that each ballot counted can be attributed to only a single properly registered person;

Whereas, the confidence and purity of the ballot requires that each such properly registered person only gets to vote one ballot;

Whereas, the confidence and purity of the ballot requires that all and only legally cast ballots are counted as the voter intended;

Whereas, trying to make the election system in Texas more secure with the Help America Vote Act of the 2002, Texas legislation has made it more complex. While making it more complex, the less secure we actually are;

Whereas, ALL computers are eminently hackable, in all major sectors, including, major industries, large enterprises, government and military institutions, local municipalities;

Whereas, it is not a matter of if, but when and how much damage is done when our computer-based election systems get hacked;

Whereas, examples* abound demonstrating that unauthorized intruders have accessed Texas election systems' voter registration databases, voter check-in databases, and vote results data;

Whereas, Senate Bill l , from the 87(3) - 2021 Special Session of the Texas legislature, FAILS to address the major vectors for cheating in elections - see complete analysis on texaseagleforum.com under the tab "Hot Topics" https://www.texaseagleforum.com/electionintegrity;

Whereas, Phase I of the Secretary of State Audit is considered by IT and cyber experts to be a sham (no cyber experts on SOS staff, no forensic examination of the election computers);

Whereas, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals has overturned decades of Texas precedent and removed criminal prosecutorial jurisdiction from the Texas Attorney General for voter fraud and wholesale election fraud, declaring "the Attorney General can prosecute with the permission of the local prosecutor but cannot initiate prosecution unilaterally."

Whereas, Texans have unwittingly handed over the power of the ballot box to people unknown to us, unelected by us, and unaccountable to us,

Whereas, Texans have placed their electoral trust in a "black box" of complex computer infrastructure that the average voter cannot understand, audit, or secure;

Whereas, Texans have placed their electoral trust in a "black box" of centralized computer systems, significantly different from the decentralized elections protocols we used to have where the voters had the ability to understand, control, secure, and audit the process from beginning to end;

Whereas, Texas legislators cannot understand this "black box" of complicated electronic election hardware, software and metadata well enough to write solid, well-fortified legislation to close the major attack surfaces in our current computer-based election systems;

Whereas, the Texas legislator